Immediately, Quan Yi directed the ships to return.
An hour later, the steamship, returning at full speed, arrived back at the Quan family pier.
Two hours, two hundred kilometers.
Quan Yi had also specifically checked the operating status of the steam engine.
The performance of the metal forged with the ultimate fire soul power far exceeded Quan Yi's imagination.
Ordinary people would not even be burned if they touched the outer wall of the boiler with their hands.
Based on its current performance, Quan Yi judged that the steam engine should be able to run continuously for a week without any problems.
When the steamship docked perfectly at the berth inside the shipyard, the many craftsmen who had been waiting there stood up to greet them.
They looked expectantly at the group disembarking from the ship.
Most of them were shipwrights who had participated in the design of the steamship.
The vast majority of them were carpenter families affiliated with the Quan family.
When the Quan family shipyard was established, these carpenter families became the most suitable candidates.
It was also the addition of these excellent carpenters that allowed the Quan family shipyard to develop rapidly to its current state.
They had been staying here, waiting for Quan Yi and the others.
However, unlike their expectations, Quan Yi and the others' reactions were too calm.
They even left the shipyard immediately after disembarking.
Just as they were wondering, Jiang Jun relayed the news of his dismissal.
As soon as these words came out, it was like a stone falling into a calm lake.
The shipwrights, who had originally wanted to celebrate, suddenly felt uneasy.
They clearly realized the seriousness of the matter.
Jiang Jun then said, "Fortunately, the young master is benevolent. This time, considering our past hard work, he has granted us a reprieve. However, there will definitely not be such luck today in the future.
I hope you all cherish this opportunity."
After saying this, Jiang Jun turned and left.
He had already done his best for these people, and he had no time to talk to them any further.
He had more important things to do, and he immediately went to process the transfer of his position.
Then he began to study iron ships.
The Quan family's respect for him had made his heart a little unsteady.
Now, after being awakened by Quan Yi, he returned to his usual state of mind.
In this state of mind, he carefully looked at Quan Yi's design drawings again, and he discovered things he had not noticed before.
"It seems that I am still suitable for the position of researcher," Jiang Jun muttered to himself.
On the other side, Quan Yi and the others arrived at the Quan family's forging factory.
The location of the forging factory was not far from the shipyard.
However, its area was no less than that of the shipyard.
However, even though its area was large, the forging factory was surrounded by armed guards.
It should be known that the shipyard did not yet have this treatment.
Walking into the spacious forging room, the first things that caught the eye were some strangely shaped machines.
These were all custom-made machine tools.
Passing through these machine tools, the interior of the forging factory contained dozens of huge circular iron furnaces.
At the bottom of these iron furnaces, bonfires two people tall were burning.
These were blast furnaces, the Quan family's magic weapon for efficient iron and steel smelting.
At the same time, it was also one of their Quan family's top secrets.
With these blast furnaces, the Quan family's efficiency in extracting iron ingots was greatly improved.
They only needed to load materials such as iron ore, coke, and limestone into the furnace from the top in proportion, and the high temperature inside and the hot air blown inside would remove the impurities from the iron ore and extract purer iron.
Just as Quan Yi and the others came to inspect, a blast furnace had completed its task.
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Under the operation of the blacksmith, two openings at the bottom of the blast furnace, one high and one low, were opened.
In an instant, two streams of dark red liquid torrents spewed out from two directions.
One was the molten iron that had been successfully extracted.
The other was the even darker liquid slag.
This process was the iron tapping and slag discharge procedure of the blast furnace.
This process instantly released the high temperature contained inside the blast furnace.
The temperature inside the forging factory instantly increased by several degrees.
The scalding molten iron slowly flowed along a specific channel to a large molten iron tank. The bottom of the molten iron tank was equipped with huge four wheels.
At the same time, this huge molten iron tank car was placed on a specific track.
Under the action of the track, the molten iron tank weighing tons was easily pushed away by several men.
Listening to Quan Yue's explanation, a part of this molten iron would be completely solidified and then taken by the blacksmiths to be forged.
The other part would be directly cast into castings.
"Actually, I think we can install a steam engine on the car that transports the molten iron. This way, we can carry more molten iron."
Looking at the act of manpower pushing the molten iron tank car, Quan Yue immediately felt that the efficiency was too low.
"Haha, father's idea coincides with mine.
In fact, we can even lay longer railways and place more steam-powered cars on the railways.
This way, our transportation capacity will be greatly expanded."
Quan Yue's idea was actually the concept of railways and trains in his previous life.
And, although the railway in the forging factory was only to facilitate the handling of molten iron, it already had a prototype.
After seeing the blast furnace, Quan Yi, led by Quan Yue, came to the side of the giant steam hammer device located in the center.
Driven by steam power, the huge vertical iron pillar was reciprocating.
At the bottom of the iron pillar, people were pushing slightly solidified pig iron into the middle of the giant iron anvil and the forging hammer.
It could be seen that the iron block, which was as tall as a person, was hit by a quarter in an instant under the heavy blow of the giant steam forging hammer.
"Clang, clang, clang!"
The soul-stirring vibration echoed in the spacious field.
The iron block weighing thousands of kilograms was quickly purified in the repeated hammering of the forging hammer.
The pig iron was refined into wrought iron in less than a minute.
In the following time, wrought iron quickly transformed into fine iron, and then transformed into iron essence.
And, this time had not yet passed half an hour.
It should be known that such a piece of iron essence can be sold for tens of thousands of gold soul coins outside.
The wealth controlled by the Quan family can be seen from this.
However, this time Quan Yi came to the forging factory, he was not just here to admire the forging factory.
"Father, please order them to suspend this forging hammer for a while.
I want to borrow this large iron anvil for a while."
Quan Yue waved his hand, stopping the blacksmiths from working.
At the same time, at Quan Yi's suggestion, Quan Yue also asked the surrounding blacksmiths to retreat.
After the blacksmiths were far away, Quan Yue curiously asked, "Xiao Yi, what are you going to do?"
Quan Yi smiled indifferently and said, "I plan to teach the seventy-two consecutive strike technique that I have mastered to the two of you."
Quan Li and Quan Yue's eyes lit up immediately.
They had long wanted to learn Quan Yi's consecutive strike method.
Quan Yi slowly walked to a completely solidified pig iron block.
He stretched out his right hand, and his right hand was covered with red and black interweaving hand armor at some point.
At the same time, the red lines on the hand armor surged, and a huge dragon claw suddenly appeared on Quan Yi's arm. The dragon claw grabbed the pig iron and burned the pig iron with the flames in its palm.
